Quotations About / On: HEART

  • 1.
    A country depends on the heart of men: it is minuscule if the heart is small, and immense if the heart is great.
    (Simone Schwarz-Bart (b. 1938), Gaudeloupean author. The Bridge of Beyond, p. 11, Éditions du Seuil (1972).)
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  • 2.
    He hath a heart as sound as a bell and his tongue is the clapper, for what his heart thinks, his tongue speaks.
    (William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Don Pedro, in Much Ado About Nothing, act 3, sc. 2, l. 12-14. Praising Benedick.)
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  • 3.
    It isn't enough for your heart to break because everybody's heart is broken now.
    (Allen Ginsberg (b. 1926), U.S. poet. Indian Journals, entry for September 6, 1962 (1970). Written in Calcutta.)
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  • 4.
    The bashful are always aggressive at heart.
    (Charles Horton Cooley (1864-1929), U.S. sociologist. Human Nature and the Social Order, ch. 5 (1902).)
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  • 5.
    An Irishman's heart is nothing but his imagination.
    (George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), Anglo-Irish playwright, critic. Larry Doyle, in John Bull's Other Island, act 1.)
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  • 6.
    Cruel impulses stir all about my kindly heart.
    (Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Second Selection, New York (1985).)
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  • 7.
    I haven't the heart to poke poor Billy.
    (Harry Graham (1874-1936), poet ("COL. D. STREAMER"). Some Ruthless Rhymes (l. 7-8). . . Norton Book of Light Verse, The. Russell Baker, ed. (1986) W. W. Norton & Company.)
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  • 8.
    To win hearts, smile kindly on people's weaknesses.
    (Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Ninth Selection, New York (1992).)
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  • 9.
    He's cold as a witch's heart.
    (Edmund H. North, British screenwriter, and Lewis Gilbert. First Sea Lord (Laurence Naismith), Sink the Bismarck! Referring to a fellow officer, 1960. Based on a true story. Based on a book by C.S. Forrester.)
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  • 10.
    Injuries come only from the heart.
    (Laurence Sterne (1713-1768), British author, clergyman. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1761), vol. 3, ch. 10, eds. Melvyn New and Joan New, University of Florida Press (1978).)
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